Figure 4. The author has done extensive archaeological work at Antelope House in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. Although there is evidence of nutritional stress, including high levels of parasitism, in the coprolites from Antelope House, the people there still maintained a diverse diet, including 26 species of wild plants. These, the author argues, constitute a starvation diet similar to what was eaten by the pre-Ancestral Pueblos. (Photograph courtesy of Philip Greenspun, http://philip.greenspun.com)
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